26.02.2004 |

UK: No go ahead for GM crops in 2004

Genetically-modified crops cannot be planted in the UK for at least another year, and maybe not even then, the environment minister, Elliot Morley, said yesterday.</p><p><a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1156357,00.html">Guardian: GM crops delayed by at least a year after cabinet leak</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3501669.stm">BBC: government to give go ahead for GM maize</a></p><p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1008415,00.html">The Times: Critics of GM crops furious at ministers' approval</a></p><p><a href="http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=493177">Independent: Why are they foisting GM crops on us?</a></p><p><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2W228815.htm">Reuters: UK government in new storm over GM crops</a>